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The Aztecs were a great mesoamericana civilizations. The Aztecs lived in current day Mexico City. Their physical features are the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain, and Sierra Madre Orental mountain. They were polytheistic and their gods were nature based. So the historians should emphasize Aztec human sacrifice. First, the importance of their sacrifice, according to Document A it states that the Aztecs intentionally left unconquered land for the purpose of flower wars. Their wars were used to collect sacrificial warriors. Flower means a sacrificial warrior, this is important because if the Aztecs did not have wars to collect flowers, then they would have to sacrifice there own people. Then there population would decrease. The scale of Aztec
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